Tournaments

Friday, June 15, 2012

YA Crush Tourney 2.0 Nominations!!!!!!!

I know you're all SUPER excited (we are too)! But before we start, there's a couple of rules and such we must lay down.

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU NOMINATE!

Each person may nominate TEN book crushes. ONE TIME ONLY. If you submit more than one form-- all your nominations will be deleted. If you can't think of all ten now, you may want to wait, because once you submit, there's no adding more for places you left blank.

You MAY NOT nominate the same character 10 times (or any more than once). If you do, your nominations will be deleted.

They must be from a YA BOOK. If it's Mature YA/New Adult-- that's fine. But books that are definitely not YA will not count.

You MUST, MUST, MUST put your character's name AND the Book Title. There are lots of characters named Adam and Alex and James, etc.... and we have no way of knowing which character you mean to nominate. Nominations without a book title will be DELETED.

As WINNER of our 1st Crush Tourney-- JACE WAYLAND/LIGHTWOOD is not eligible to be nominated. All nominations for that lovable bad boy will be deleted. SORRY.

Please be patient as we count nominations. It takes a very long time. We'll try to update you once a day. And while we are widely read, we haven't read EVERYTHING. If we spell a character's name or Book wrong, we're sorry. Please let us know.

NOMINATIONS CLOSE JUNE 19TH AT 11:59 PM (CENTRAL TIME).

Did you get all that? We know it's a lot of rules... but we're trying to keep things running as smoothly and fairly as possible. We know your brains are probably pre-occupied with fictional yumminess.

Well.... I think we've stalled long enough. Keep checking back on this post for updates on nominations!

Nominations are closed, and the final tournament contestants have been posted.

I'm sad to say that I couldn't even think of ten characters. I got up to nine and then I got stuck. If this included more than YA books then it would have been easy peasy, but since I read more UF books, I couldn't really think of many guys to nominate.

Looking at the list, it seems Cassandra Clare can write some really lovable boys. Jace won last year and I'm thinking that Will is going to win this year.

This looks so exciting!! I really hope Prince Maxon from The Selection makes it!! I'm currently reading the book and I don't think I've ever crushed on a fictional character so hard before! *swoon* Here's hoping he gets more vote before midnight on the 19th!!

Everyone has to vote for Patch!!! He's a hot bad boy what more could you want?!? I loved hush hush! Oh god and if you don't vote Shane from Morganville then I'll kill you!!! loving this tourney!!!! Xxxx

Sebastian and Jordan should not be on this list. Sebastian is a rapist - if he hadn't been stopped, he would've RAPED his sister, and to me, an attempted rapist is a rapist all the same. He planned to go through with it. It doesn't matter that it didn't actually happen. Anyone who could call a character like that a "YA crush" is messed up in the head, and anyone that thinks he falls under "bad boy" is either immoral or ignorant or has no respect for survivors of sexual assault and sexual abuse. Jordan is an abuser, and encouraging people to have a crush on an abuser is basically encouraging teenage girls to be in a relationship with a man that will use and abuse them because "it's the total dream!"

Edward I could go on about too, but I'll let it slide for now because Jordan and Sebastian are the ones I'm more concerned about getting off the list.

Just, please. I know this is run on submissions, but seriously, you can't put abusers and rapists on this list. That's just disgusting and wrong, and I'm absolutely appalled. I was mentally abused as a kid. Abuse of any kind is nothing to smile upon, and it's not even remotely okay to make abuse and attempted rape look like nothing by glorifying the abusers and rapists.

Thank you for your comment. We understand your concerns. These votes are in no way representative of our own opinions. We are only showing the results as based upon voting.

Regardless of how we ourselves feel, we cannot change votes simply because of any one person's opinion, especially being that there were no restrictions outlining which characters were eligible for nomination.

We would, however, encourage you to rally support behind other characters in the hopes that they might overcome him.

So Excited!! Just nominated my top 10 crushes! At first I thought I wouldn't be able to think of 10, but then I was having the hardest time narrowing it down. Here's hoping a few of my crushes make it to the running, even the obscure ones!!

Thank you for your comment. We understand your concerns. These votes are in no way representative of our own opinions. We are only showing the results as based upon voting.

Regardless of how we ourselves feel, we cannot change votes simply because of any one person's opinion, especially being that there were no restrictions outlining which characters were eligible for nomination.

We would, however, encourage you to rally support behind other characters in the hopes that they might overcome him.

I have to say I'm quite disappointed by this list. I understand that people like TMI & ID (I do, too) but do we really need to nominate EVERY male character? This is supposed to be about all YA not Cassandra Clare books. I would like to see some kind of limit per book series. Otherwise, this is just lame to me. This makes me so sad because I usually buy all the books nominated, and this year, I've already read most of them. #epicfail

Wow! I'm so sorry some want to turn this into something it's not. I hope you reconsider your tournaments. These are so much fun! I'm spreading the word about these awesome tourneys and to send you guys some love for being so great! If people want to be negative we need to ignore them and be twice as positive. I hope this all blows over for you and it can be kept civil.Good luck, I cant wait to see the results! :)

Been meaning to put in my crushes for the lats couple days. So glad I didn't forget. I'm so excited for this tourney to see who wins and discover some great books. Tourney of Heroines led me to Shatter Me (which I loved!) Can't wait to see the results and hope that some of my crushes move up!

I hope the tourney is as (if not more) fun as last year! Pulling for my Shade boys, Peeta, Cricket & all the other fabulously crush-worthy characters! Let's hope the nice guys can get some love, too! :)